Federal Payroll Turnover in Civil Service Driven by Wages
The article reports two groups within federal workers: long-term career civil servants and emergency wartime hires. It notes turnover driven by wages, with 2 million emergency staff recruited for war duration, and rising requests for new placements. Flemming cites 66,000 “hardship” Washington workers earning under $1,925, few above $4,600, average around $2,000 nationwide. Legislation seeks a 15.9 percent pay raise and overtime base adjustments. It discusses living arrangements during recovery and defense programs and the shift of wartime workers into private employment.
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Alency Yating
Arthur S. Flemming
United States Civil Service
Uniformed Help
United States
Flemmilty
Flehiming
Washington
Congress
Iwany
Wilson
Harding
Pennsylvana
It Says Here By Bob Hope on Patton Welcome Home
In Los Angeles Bob Hope recounts a patriotic homecoming for Patton and Doolittle with city officials, the chamber of commerce and crowd praise. He jokes about rivets, spats and the famous figures while noting wartime federal employments and the idea of a public servant’s mission.
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Bob Hope
Wes
Los Angeles
Old Blend
Patton
Jmmie ‘Pood
Doolittte
Alport
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Tatton
Jimmy
Troy
Speegle Funeral Held at Taylor
Taylor June 20 funeral services for Mrs. Margaret A. Speegle 92 were held with burial in Taylor City Cemetery. She is survived by five daughters two sisters and one son Hu Speg tre, with multiple relatives named across Elgin Marfa Granger Austin Smithville Barnett and Houston. The Criminal Investigation Division of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations investigated 4997 alleged crimes and recovered 1,585,141 worth of ug property in 1944.
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Smithville
G. W. Brundige
Granger
Lee Brundige
Elgin
Criminal Investigation Division
Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Shooting Ends Card Game Fight in Houston District
A 4:30 am shooting near 403 Milam Street left Houston resident Thomson wounded in the left shoulder. Police identified the now-escaped assailant. In separate Tuesday night incidents, two women and a man were cut with knives during clashes in the East Commerce area. Willis Freeman and Ariella Thomas sustained facial and cheek injuries. All three knife victims received treatment at Robert B. Green Hospital.
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Reganeené
Cata
Houston Thomson
Brooks Street
Arzamora
East Commerce Street
Ariella Thomas
Dakota Street
Virgil J Galdey
Chestnut Street
Robert B. Green Hospital
Hastings Soldier Fined For Sidewalk Bike Ride
Civilian Majeski returns from 60 day Army furlough to Hastings Minnesota where a bicycle on the sidewalk led to a violation charge. He was fined 10 suspended, costs 2, provoking a community split over enforcement of an old ordinance. Veterans groups defend him asserting servicemen should not be arrested for trivial infractions.
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Hastings
Minn
Edward Majeski
Army
Majeski
R. W. Greene
Greene
Justice of the Peace
John Bens
Benson
Nine Youths Held In Stickup Spree In Dallas
Five youths aged 14 to 18 and two others sought are held after a pair of armed holdups of soldiers. The group, including five 18 year olds from Dallas, admitted ambushing War rant Officer Manuel Schatten at Roosevelt Park and stealing $2. A patrol car pursuit led to arrests at South Pine and East Commerce streets, officer Jesse Strait seizing the weapon. Earlier, two 18 year olds stopped John F Gray at Seventh and Broadway, brandishing a knife, and took his wallet and $18.
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Dallas
Manuel Schatten
Fort Sam Houston
Jesse Strait
South Pine
East Commerce Streets
Set
John F. Gray
Seventh
Broacway
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